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Juggling Truths
Dow Unity
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Description for Juggling Truths
Paperback. Num Pages: 173 pages, 1port. BIC Classification: YQEF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 168.
Unity Dow’s third novel, Juggling Truths portrays the childhood of Monei Ntuka in the Botswanan village of Mochudi in Africa. Go to the past with me, so you can take the past to the future, asks her Nkoko. Nei takes us on an extraordinary journey through the many truths that shape her life; the truths of the colonisers and their churches and of her own people. We travel with her through dreams and share the wisdom of her grandmother as she lets the never-ending stories weave their own reality in face of a universe of conflicting truths. Unity Dow ... Read more
Unity Dow’s third novel, Juggling Truths portrays the childhood of Monei Ntuka in the Botswanan village of Mochudi in Africa. Go to the past with me, so you can take the past to the future, asks her Nkoko. Nei takes us on an extraordinary journey through the many truths that shape her life; the truths of the colonisers and their churches and of her own people. We travel with her through dreams and share the wisdom of her grandmother as she lets the never-ending stories weave their own reality in face of a universe of conflicting truths. Unity Dow ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
173
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
163g
Number of Pages
173
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781876756383
SKU
V9781876756383
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Ref
99-2
About Dow Unity
Unity Dow is the first woman in Botswana to be appointed High Court judge. Dow has a long record as a human rights attorney, co-founding the Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Project and is a member of International Women's Rights Watch an advocacy organisation. In 1995 Dow challenged the government over the 1982 Citizenship Act, under ... Read more
Reviews for Juggling Truths
"Juggling Truths is Unity Dow's third novel. A young girl tells the story of her growing up and her attempts to bridge the seemingly conflicting 'truths' she encounters. The book has been compared to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird': there are many resonances, in the relationships of the very young and the very old, the power of superstition in ... Read more